Forum: Community Center


Subject: Darth said I should post this here

bonestructure opened this issue on May 24, 2000 ยท 21 posts


KateTheShrew posted Wed, 24 May 2000 at 12:31 PM

One of the things I love about the forums here is the little mini tutorials, and that's one of the things that keeps me coming here. BUT (and this is my whole point here) there is no real organization of the helpful tidbits we find in the forum messages. And past tips are a nightmare to find, even using the search option. And trying to print a tutorial off the web drives me nuts because I'll wind up with the text on one page and the illustrations on another, etc. Downloading them to re-format and print out for my own reference involves loading my HD with each and every image as well as the html coding. So, for ME, I would LOVE to have all that done for me. I would pay the cost of processing a CD so that I could have it all at my fingertips, so to speak. The stuff that's here would still be here and still be free, but what I would be willing to pay for is not the information but the convenience of having it all organized into something that I can print out to hard copy. PLUS, with a CD all those little mini tuts could be expanded to include illustrative screen shots for those of us who don't follow written instructions well or which, frankly, were too large to include in the forum posting. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to follow some of the stuff and not been able to because I don't have a visual reference to aid me, or how often I've attempted to search the site for instructions on how to do something that I know I saw only to give up in frustration at not finding it in the archives because I'm not using the right keyword or can't recall the title of the post. If done properly, I think a Tutorials CD could be used to enhance, not replace, the information we find in the forums and on members' websites. Kate